Factors affecting people productivity in workplace

One of the concerned area in a workplace to improve the manpower productivity. Given the situation, automation or use of robotics is limited, how to improve the workplace ergonomics, thereby improving the manpower productivity?.

The following factors contribute to fatigue to the people. By optimizing either one or all of the factors will improve the productivity.

1.Person and his/ her posture
2.Type of work being done 
3.Tool being used by the person to do the work
4.Work Environment in which the work is being done

Simple checklist for identifying ergonomic risk in workplace

As we discussed in Why Ergonomics is not given importance in SME organization? a simple checklist with little awareness to engineers, shop floor operating team will help the team to identify the ergonomic risk in the workplace. This awareness further triggers the improvement in workplace re-engineering by the operating team.

In fact, REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) is a structured approach to identify the ergonomic risks in the workplace, the given below checklist is easy to understand and quick guide to identify the fatigue in the workplace by the operating team as we experienced in more than 10 + SME clients.

Ergonomic Assessment Checklist

1.Awkard Posture

2.Handling loads and moving

3.Repetitive physical activities

4.Environment and unfavorable layouts